A University of Alabama researcher and his team believe they’ve been able to observe a black hole destroying a star in a galaxy far, far away. Peter Maksym led the study of data from NASA’s Chandra telescope that observed a large x-ray flare.

Peter Maksym:“You have this tiny little galaxy that appears to have had a really huge x-ray flare. This is really solid evidence that it’s got a massive black hole of some sort.”

Maksym says the flare was probably created when a star got too close to the black hole and was destroyed.

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